APPENDIX I. 



chatka ; to which place they probably arrived with a 

 favourite wind, by following the coaft, and running up 

 the Kamtchatka river. 



When Volodimir Atlaflbff, in 1697, firft entered upon 

 the redudion of Kamtchatka, he found that the inhabi- 

 tants had already fome knowledge of the Ruffians. A 

 common tradition ftill prevails amongft them, that lonp- 

 before the expedition of Atlaffoft, one •'•- Fedotofr (who 

 was probably the fon of Fedot AlexeefF) and his compa- 

 nions had refided amongft them, and had intermarried 

 with the natives. They ftill {hew the fpot where the 

 Ruffian habitations flood ; namely, atthe mouth of the fm all 

 river Nikul which falls into the Kamtchatka river, and is 

 called by the Ruffians Fedotika. Upon Atlaflbff's arrival 

 none of the firft Ruffians remained. They are faid to 

 have been held in great veneration, and almoft deified 

 by the inhabitants, who at firft imagined that no human 

 power could hurt them, until they quarrelled amonoft 

 thcmfelves, and the blood was feen to flow from the 

 ;Wounds which they gave each other : and upon a fepara- 

 tion taking place between the Ruffians, part of them had 

 been killed by the Koriacs, as they w^ere going to the 

 fea of Penfliinsk, and the remainder by the Kamtcha- 

 dals. The river Fedotika falls into the Southern fide of 



* Fedotoff, in the R.uffian language, fignifies the fon of Fedot. 



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